[Aptitude-devel] Bug#710587: aptitude: unable to purge a package

[shirish शिरीष]

in-line :-

On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Shirish

Hello Daniel,

Thank you at the outset for the prompt response.

> On 1 June 2013 11:29, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Package: aptitude
>> Version: 0.6.9.1-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>
> Can you reproduce this with 0.6.8.2-1?  We are unable to support the
> current experimental version.

Ohk. I downgraded to 0.6.8.2-1 and tried it and still get the same issue.

$ sudo aptitude install aptitude=0.6.8.2-1 aptitude-common=0.6.8.2-1
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  aptitude aptitude-common
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 downgraded, 0 to remove and
4 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,930 kB of archives. After unpacking 118 kB will be freed.
Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main aptitude amd64
0.6.8.2-1 [1,433 kB]
Get: 2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main aptitude-common all
0.6.8.2-1 [1,497 kB]
Fetched 2,450 kB in 1min 13s (33.2 kB/s)
dpkg: warning: downgrading aptitude from 0.6.9.1-1 to 0.6.8.2-1
(Reading database ... 593422 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace aptitude 0.6.9.1-1 (using
.../aptitude_0.6.8.2-1_amd64.deb) ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=installed
Unpacking replacement aptitude ...
D000001: process_archive updating info directory
D000001: generating infodb hashfile
dpkg: warning: downgrading aptitude-common from 0.6.9.1-1 to 0.6.8.2-1
Preparing to replace aptitude-common 0.6.9.1-1 (using
.../aptitude-common_0.6.8.2-1_all.deb) ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=installed
Unpacking replacement aptitude-common ...
D000001: process_archive updating info directory
D000001: generating infodb hashfile
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up aptitude-common (0.6.8.2-1) ...
D000001: deferred_configure updating conffiles
Setting up aptitude (0.6.8.2-1) ...
D000001: deferred_configure updating conffiles
Processing triggers for menu ...

$ sudo aptitude purge gnotski -y
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnotski{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
D000001: deferred_remove package gnotski:all
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove gnotski which isn't installed

<snipped>

> What is the output of:
> $ dpkg --version && apt-cache policy gnotski && dpkg -l gnotski

This is the output of what you asked :-

$ dpkg --version && apt-cache policy gnotski && dpkg -l gnotski
Debian `dpkg' package management program version 1.16.10 (amd64).
This is free software; see the GNU General Public License version 2 or
later for copying conditions. There is NO warranty.
gnotski:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.4.2-3
  Version table:
     1:3.8.2-1 0
         10 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
     1:3.4.2-3 0
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                       Version            Architecture       Description
+++-==========================-==================-==================-==========================================================
rc  gnotski                    1:3.4.2-3          amd64
Klotski puzzle game for GNOME


> Regards

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